Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Robert Henry Thouless (15 July 1894 – 25 September 1984) was an English psychologist and parapsychologist. [1] He is best known as the author of Straight and Crooked Thinking (1930, 1953), which describes flaws in reasoning and argument. [2]
The German verb ausleihen, the Dutch verb lenen, the Afrikaans verb leen, the Polish verb pożyczyć, the Russian verb одолжить (odolžítʹ), the Finnish verb lainata, and the Esperanto verb prunti can mean either "to lend" or "to borrow", with case, pronouns, and mention of persons making the sense clear.
An unpaired word is one that, according to the usual rules of the language, would appear to have a related word but does not. [1] Such words usually have a prefix or suffix that would imply that there is an antonym, with the prefix or suffix being absent or opposite.
Straight and Crooked Thinking, first published in 1930 and revised in 1953, [1] is a book by Robert H. Thouless which describes, assesses and critically analyses flaws in reasoning and argument. Thouless describes it as a practical manual, rather than a theoretical one.
Crooked Plow takes place in the early 20th century, during the transition years when freed slaves and their descendants worked the land they were prevented from owning. The book’s success in Brazil exemplifies a trend in the country’s literary landscape toward novels told from the perspective of the historically oppressed.
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
Fleming wrote the book while convalescing after having had a major heart attack; he had created the story as a bedtime story for his son, Caspar. Fleming did not live to see Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang published; he died of a heart attack on 11 August 1964.
Crook Manifesto is a 2023 novel by Colson Whitehead, published by Doubleday.It returns to the fictional world of his previous book, Harlem Shuffle.It is a work of crime fiction and a family saga that takes place in Harlem during three periods: 1971, 1973, and 1976, the year of the United States Bicentennial celebration.